Old photographs of Lahore – what a discovery on New Year’s Eve

Posted on December 31, 2010 by | 8 Comments

Raza Rumi

Happy New Year to all the Lahore Nama readers those who are interested in the magnificent city called Lahore. I discovered this amazing site with breathtaking photos of an undivided India and here are a few from Lahore:

Punjab Public Library, 1870s

Entering Lahore was once like this:

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8 responses to “Old photographs of Lahore – what a discovery on New Year’s Eve”

  1. Fazal Jaswal | December 31, 2010 at 11:24 am | Reply

    Beautiful Lahore

  2. shama zaidi | December 31, 2010 at 1:28 pm | Reply

    maybe you should check out the ebrahim alkazi collection of old photographs

  3. M J Bowers | December 31, 2010 at 10:25 pm | Reply

    Raza, F E Chaudhry (former Pakistan Times photographer) has some great pictures of old Lahore. Did he ever publish any book ?

  4. Subhash Parihar | January 1, 2011 at 7:56 am | Reply

    Interesting pics.

  5. wasyed | January 1, 2011 at 10:46 pm | Reply

    Are you familiar with this one, Raza?

    http://www.harappa.com/hawkshaw/45.html

  6. Raza Rumi | January 1, 2011 at 10:49 pm | Reply

    wajid – no just saw this – brilliant

  7. Rhetoric And Stuff | January 2, 2011 at 9:25 am | Reply

    This photos are stunning, thanks for the link!

  8. Faisal | January 5, 2011 at 10:45 am | Reply

    اچھی دریافت ہے جناب۔
    ایک دن لوگ ہماری تصاویر بھی ایسے دیکھیں گے۔
    🙂

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